North Little Rock police say one person was killed and another was seriously hurt in an early-morning shooting Sunday.
Officers were called shortly before 4:50 a.m. to the 800 block of Healy Street in reference to shots fired, according to a news release.
There, authorities found two people suffering from gunshot wounds. One, later identified as 36-year-old Corey Tramel Edwards, was pronounced dead at the scene. His body has been sent to the state Crime Laboratory for an autopsy.
The second, 31-year-old Sanford Slater Jr., was taken to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Additional information was not immediately available Sunday afternoon.
The killing marks North Little Rock’s 13th homicide of the year, police said.
